Error importing object

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Admitted noob here, but i know enough to get around.

i bought a model of a book off of turbosquid in obj and 3ds format.

in blender i went to file>import and in both cases got essentially this error…

unicode error
codec can’t encode character ‘\xba’ in position 88
ordinal not in range

any help appreciated

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you could try downloading Google Sketchup (free) and importing in your model then exporting a 3D Collada object, then import into Blender. I get mixed results when using Colloda and OBJs.